Touart Transfer Plan Calls For Sheriff To Give Up 40 Percent Of His Administrative Staff…or does it? (update)
By Jesse Farthing Most difficult tasks have checklists. That’s the way all parties can make sure deadlines are met in an orderly fashion. That’s not…
Are You Ready to Rumble? Stand Your Ground: El Baby Gaetz vs. The Unchained (see poster)
SaintPetersBlog.com is having fun with the proposed debate on Stand Your Ground between Rep. Matt Gaetz and executive director of the Dream Defenders, Phillip Agnew….
Southeastern Teen Shakespeare Company sets out on its own
Press Release: The Southeastern Teen Shakespeare Company (SetsCo), until this year a part of Pensacola Little Theatre’s Treehouse Theatre division, has incorporated as a non-profit…
Randy Hammer retires
Randy Hammer, former executive editor of the Pensacola News Journal, has announced his retirement as president and publisher of the Asheville Citizen-Times, which is also…
Buzz: Bureaucratic mess leads to new couch being bought before needs of handicapped met
Barbara Albrecht, the president of the Bream Fishermen Association, is upset with the bureaucratic nightmare at Pensacola City Hall. Her group, which supports, develops, and…
T.T. Wentworth Museum closes until November
Press Release: The T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Florida State Museum will be temporarily closed from Aug. 6 until November 2013 while preparations are made for the…
Matt Gaetz ready to debate over Stand Your Ground
The Miami Herald reports that Rep. Matt Gaetz has agreed to a televised debate with Dream Defenders Director Phillip Agnew on Florida’s controversial Stand Your…
Florida Congressman says tax on tanning beds is racist. Guess chocolate milk is too
SaintPetersblog reports that Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Gainesville) told constituents at a town hall event that a provision in Obamacare imposing a 10% tax on tanning…
Feeding Frenzy and the Goldmine
The Escambia County RESTORE Act Advisory Committee on Monday heard presentations on both environment and economy. William O. Cleckley, of the Northwest Florida Water Management…
Study Finds Toxic Metal Concentrations in Gulf Whales Are Likely the Highest In the World
The sperm whales of the Gulf of Mexico have higher levels of chromium and nickel in their systems than sperm whales found anywhere else in…
East Hill Residents Receive Claim Extension
Thousands of East Hill neighborhood residents who received notices in the mail earlier this summer inviting them to participate in a class action lawsuit settlement…
2013 ECAT Ridership swells
Press Release: Mid-Year Numbers Reflect Strong Community Demand for Public Transportation [Pensacola, Fla.] – Representatives from Escambia County Area Transit (ECAT) are pleased to announce…
Locals buy daily newspaper
The Boston Globe now has local owners. John W. Henry, the owner of the Boston Red Sox, has offered to purchase The Boston Globe, along…
Matt Gaetz to hold hearings on Stand Your Ground
Will Weatherford, the Republican speaker of Florida’s House of Representatives, said on Friday that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fort Walton Beach), chair of the House’s Criminal…
Jail transfer postponed to day before BCC meeting
The deadline to transfer the jail from sheriff’s office’s control to the Board of County Commissioners is 56 days away. Escambia County Jail Transfer Workshop,…
BP faces $28 million fine for allegedly manipulating natural gas price…no surprise here
Reuters is reporting this morning that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Enforcement has ordered BP Plc to show cause why a unit of…
African-American Leaders Decry Shooting, ECSO Response
A few blocks away from the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, a collective of African-American community organizations and leaders gathered today at Englewood Baptist Church to…
Florida House Democratic Caucus calls for special session on Stand Your Ground
The Honorable Ken Detzner Florida Secretary of State Florida Department of State R.A. Gray Building 500 South Bronough Street Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0250 Dear Secretary Detzner:…
Belmont-DeVilliers Mural Project Set to Begin Fall 2013
This fall, the DeVilliers Cultural Heritage Society will kick off a Cultural Heritage Mural Project on the walls of Gumbo Gallery at 314 North DeVilliers…
Escambia County will be open jail transfer meetings
Press release: Escambia County and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office will hold a joint workshop session Monday, August 5, at 10 a.m. to continue negotiations…
